Economic neoliberalism promises social efficiency with self-interested participants and free competition. This doctrine is challenged by the extensive production of wasteful goods and services in the contemporary West. By studying three types of wasteful production-conspicuous goods, conspicuous...

Fuel economy standards have been implemented worldwide to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles for decades, while the attribute-based design provides regulatory loopholes for automakers’ compliance. Based on detailed vehicle model-level data in China, a bunching analysis is used to explore...

In this paper we examine the empirical relationship between economic openness and nationalism. We replicate and extend the cross-country analysis of Lan and Li (2015) using additional measures of nationalism and additional years of data from the World Values Survey. We fail to find the negative...